Tech Meme

Kylie Robison / The Verge: A look at the promise of AI agents as a way for companies to monetize models; PitchBook: AI agent startups raised $8.2B over the last 12 months, up 81.4% YoY  —  Humans have automated tasks for centuries.  Now, AI companies see a path to profit in harnessing our love of efficiency, and they’ve got a name for their solution: agents. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Relyance AI, which helps companies comply with data privacy regulations, raised a $32.1M Series B led by Thomvest, bringing its total funding to ~$59M  —  As the demand for AI surges, AI vendors are devoting greater bandwidth to data security issues.  Not only are they being compelled … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: The FBI reveals it created Ethereum-based token NexFundAI with the help of “cooperating witnesses” as part of an investigation into crypto price manipulation  —  The FBI created a cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into price manipulation in crypto markets, the government revealed Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Grace Kay / Business Insider: Four of Tesla’s direct reports to Elon Musk, including the CIO and the global vehicle automation and safety policy lead, resigned before Tesla’s robotaxi event  —  – Four Tesla execs announced in the past week that they were leaving or had already left the company. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lara O’Reilly / Business Insider: PayPal launches PayPal Ads, meant to help US marketers tap into data about the billions of transactions across PayPal’s platforms, including Venmo and Honey  —  – PayPal is set to launch an ads business, starting in the US.  — The company intends to offer ads across its own properties, as well as retailers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Sources detail Meta’s work on an Orion consumer version that could be built within two years, plans to bring Orion wristband tech to its other devices, and more  —  When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the occasion to show the world his vision … Lees verder op Tech Meme

BBC: The US and the UK announce an agreement to keep children safer online, including plans to set up an online safety working group to share evidence and expertise  —  The argument over smartphones in schools has been “won”, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android from November, after a judge ordered Google to open up the Play Store  —  Microsoft is planning to update its Xbox mobile app on Android to allow US users to purchase and then play Xbox games on their mobile devices next month. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tobias Mann / The Register: AMD debuts its 5th Gen Epyc data center chips, codenamed Turin, with up to 192 cores, clock speeds up to 5GHz, and double-digit gains in instructions per clock  —  Just not on the same chip, of course  —  Intel’s 128-core Granite Rapids Xeons are barely two weeks old and AMD has already fired … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The UK appoints Darktrace co-founder Poppy Gustafsson, who left last month before Thoma Bravo’s £4.3B takeover of the cybersecurity firm, as investment minister  —  Appointment comes ahead of international investment summit  —  Darktrace co-founder Poppy Gustafsson has been appointed … Lees verder op Tech Meme